Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Pièce de résistance—A solid joint. Fr.

Pièces de théâtre—Plays. Fr. 30

Piety is a kind of modesty. It makes us cast down our thoughts, just as modesty makes us cast down our eyes in presence of whatever is forbidden. Joubert.

Piety is not a religion, although it is the soul of all religions. Joubert.

Piety is only a means whereby, through purest inward peace, we may attain to highest culture. Quoted by Emerson from Goethe.

Piety, like wisdom, consists in the discovery of the rules under which we are actually placed, and in faithfully obeying them. Froude.

Piety, stretched beyond a certain point, is the 35 parent of impiety. Sydney Smith.

Pigmæi gigantum humeris impositi plusquam ipsi gigantes vident—Dwarfs on a giant's back see more than the giant himself. Didacus Stella.

Pigmies are pigmies still, though perched on Alps; / And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Young.

Pigs grow fat where lambs would starve. Pr.